Mike Napoli, who clubbed the two home runs that were the deciding margins in Game 3 and 5, has felt it, too.

“It’s been draining,” he said. “I get home, and I pass out. I never do that.”

Even the ever-exuberant Koji Uehara wasn’t ready to reflect on what the Red Sox have done.

“I just felt exhausted,” he said through an interpreter. “I’m too tired to even look back.”

Rosenthal had a few other gems in his postgame notes, including that Napoli — while not the tidiest of men by appearance — is actually a neat freak when it comes to keeping his locker. Third base coach Brian Butterfield noted that Napoli likes to keep his things in order, and he’s also meticulous on the field.

“I tell our young guys, ‘Watch Napoli. Everything he does on the field, he has a purpose,'” Butterfield said.

I would love to feel the stress and exhaustion of being a major league baseball player, making millions of dollars playing kids game! Suck it up and finish this thing off tomorrow! Get your rest after winning game 6 then win it all in the WS...They can sleep all the way till spring training after that.

The Red Sox players are tired but they are not going to Quit this team has players that have won world championships and will be a presence in the Club house and inspire the players that have not been there one more win and the Red Sox are in the World Series. Go Red Sox.

Are you kidding me?? tired "ready to pass out" they are one game away from the World Series they went from worst to first, they should be on top of the world ready to play til June!!! I love my Sox but todays athletes (baseball players) are bunch of babies....Our Bruins played almost every other day and went to the Stanley Cup finals and not a complaint....Grow up earn your money and for the love of God, KEEP UR MOUTHS ShUT!!!!